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Child safety
Convertible child safety seats
Properly used convertible child safety seats can
help protect toddlers and children over age one
who weigh between 20 and 40 lbs. (9 and 18 kg)
in a crash.
Fig. 167
Schematic overview: installat ion of the attach -
ments app licable to a LATCH seat
Fig. 168
Schemat ic overview: installat ion of the seat using
the vehicle's safety belt system
.. When using the vehicle safety be lt to install a
child safety seat, you must first activate the
convertible locking retractor on the safety belt
to prevent the child safety seat from mov ing
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or install the seat using the LATCH
attachments .
.. Push the child safety seat down with your full
weight to get the safety be lt really tight so that
the seat cannot move forward or sideways
more than one inch (2.5 cm)
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.. If the child safety seat is equipped with a tethe r
strap, attach it to the tether anchors
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.. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
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A toddler or child is usually too large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old and
weighs more than 20 lbs . (9 kg).
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Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years old and weigh more than
20 lbs (9 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg) must always be
properly restrained in a child safety seat certified
for their size and weight
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fig. 167
and
¢ fig. 168 .
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place for a child to
ride. The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-fac ing child safety seat .
It
is a
very dangerous place for an infant or a larger
ch ild in a rearward-facing seat .
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, us ing the wrong
ch ild safety seat or imprope rly installing a
chi ld restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a collision or oth -
er emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inflates .
A child in a rearward-fac ing ch ild safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
serious ly injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the chi ld safety
seat or infant carr ier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
aga inst the backrest, center a rm rest, doo r
or roof.
- Always install rear-fac ing ch ild safety seats
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearwa rd facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat be -
cause of exceptional circumstan ces a nd the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on and stay on, immediately install
the rear-facing child safety seat in a rear
seating position and have the airbag system
inspected by your Audi dealer .
- The rear side of the ch ild safety seat should
be positioned as close as possible to the
backrest on the veh icle seat.
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